29 SEPTEMBER 1883, Page 21

Scraps from My Sabrelasche. By George Carter Stent. (W. H.

Allen.)—Mr. Stent, who is known as the author of a Chinese dictionary, here presents us with a book of a very different and much livelier kind. It consists of his personal adventures while in the 14th Dragoons, beginning with barrack life in Canterbury and Maidstone, and ending with the capture of Jhansi and Gwalior. Mr. Stent, who seems to have a large fund of animal spirits and a happy turn for theatricals, managed to get a good deal of pleasure out of his soldier life. Having a quick eye for character, he made many observations on the social characteristics of the countries his regiment visited, many of which, as here published, strike ns as new.